104 MAMM.VLIA. 



goes, Kob and Koba by the loliffs, and Vache brune by the French 

 at Senegal." This is certainly not the Kob of Buffon (xii. t. 32. 

 f. 1, 2). The negroes at the Gambia declare that this animal 

 never bears more than one fawn ; for after that period, the horns 

 increase in length, and enter the loins and destroy the animals ! 



The small variety in the Paris, Upsal and Stockholm Museums, 

 described as A. Leucophaeus by Pallas and Sundevall, which was 

 formerly found at the Cape, but is now said to be extinct, is the 

 size of the Common Stag, Cervus Elaphus. M. Sundevall ob- 

 serves that it is as different from A. Equina, as the species of 

 Eleotragi and Tragelaphi are from one another ; and he observes, 

 in a letter I have just received, " I must tell you, that after the in- 

 spection of a whole series of A. Equina, which Wahlberg brought 

 home, I am convinced that the A. leucophcea of Pallas is a very 

 distinct race. Our stuffed specimen, that must have been adult, 

 has much smaller hoofs than the very young A. Equina, male as 

 well as female, amongst Wahlberg's, and the tuft over the la- 

 chrymal sinus, as I have shortly expressed in the printed survey." 



Mr. Gray observes, " When I examined the specimen at Paris, 

 I regarded it as a young or rather dwarf specimen of A. Equina, 

 and the absence of the nuchal crest led to this belief; and I am 

 not satisfied that the number of rings on the horns is a suffi- 

 cient proof of its being adult." 



The Blaubok lives in herds of six to twelve, on the slopes and 

 summits of small hills. They are most abundant north of the 

 Kurrichane. They are exceedingly swift. Their flesh is used as 

 food, but has a rank flavour, and is inferior to most of the 

 South African Antelopes. A. Smith. 



2. -ZEoocERUS NIGER. The BLACK Boc. 



Black. Face white, with a dark streak. Female and young 

 brown. 



Antilope niger, Harris, Trans. Zool. Soc. ii. 213. t. 29; Gervais, 



Diet. Sci. Nat. Supp. i. 267. 

 Antilope Harrisii, Harris, Narrative. 

 JSgocerus niger, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 158. 

 Aigocerus niger (Sable Antelope), Harris, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1838, 



2; W. A. S. Africa, t. 23, and head; Gray, Ann. fy Mag. Nat. 



H. 1846, 232; Knowsley Menaa. 17; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, 



133; Turner, P. Z. S. 1849. 

 Hab. S. Africa. 



A male. S. Africa. Major Harris's Collection. The specimen 

 described by Capt. Harris. 



Male. S. Africa. From M. SundevalPs Collection. 

 Female. S. Africa. From M. SundevalPs Collection. 



